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exit
(1) To get out of the current mode or quit the program. Contrast with launch.

(2) In programming, to get out of the loop, routine or function that the computer is currently in.
exit
1. Theatre the act of going offstage
2. Bridge
a. the act of losing the lead deliberately
b. a card enabling one to do this

exit [′eg·zət]
(computer science)
A way of terminating a repeated cycle of operations in a computer program.
A place at which such a cycle can be stopped.
(engineering)
A door, passage, or place of egress.

exit
That portion of a means of egress which is separated from the rest of a building by walls, floors, doors, or other means and which provides a reasonably protected path of escape for the occupants of a building in the event of fire.


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In the study, physicists timed a crowd of 50 women as they exited as fast as possible through a door, and then repeated the experiment with a 20-centimetre-wide pillar placed 65 centimetres in front of the exit to the left-hand side.
Once occupants have crossed the two-hour barrier, they are considered to have exited the area being evacuated.
It is informative, however, to compare DSP recipients who exited off all income support payments (the fourth data column) with DSP recipients who did not exit (sixth data column), since the rates of left-censoring are similar for these two groups.
 
 
 
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